Gottfrid Svartholm was kept in solitary confinement during his stint in prison.

Gottfrid Svartholm, a founding member of infamous torrent-sharing website The Pirate Bay, has been released from prison after serving three years on hacking, fraud and copyright charges. He was first handed a one-year sentence for his involvement in The Pirate Bay back in 2011.

Svartholm was arrested and began serving his time in late 2012. Not long after his initial release, accusations of hacking and fraud offences went to trial, resulting in a guilty verdict and two year prison sentence.

The Appeal Court later cleared the 30 year of hacking the Nordea bank but remained convinced he was guilty of hacking IT company Logica. They reduced his two year sentence down to one. While serving time for this authorities in Denmark went after Svartholm – leading to his extradition despite protests and an appeal which reached Sweden's Supreme Court.

In Denmark he stood accused of hacking IT company CSG, another allegation he denied. He was found guilty and handed a three and a half year sentence which was upheld following a High Court appeal.

Having served time in both Swedish and Danish prisons, Svartholm was released on good behaviour last month (via Torrent Freak). This brings to an end (for now) the efforts of his supporters to see his release, who rallied under the the banner Free Anakata (his online pseudonym).